Quotes

It says a great deal about the Conservatives that Andrew Scheer is still speaking for them, they’ve just thrown their hands in the air, admitted they have the moral low ground and have decided to dig a bit, to see what else is down there.

America: Nothing exists beyond your own grasping grip and everything that does isn’t yours so grab it all, grab it tight and don’t let go. Everything else is Gods.

Put more simply, you can tell a lot about someone’s politics from the parties they throw. For a lot of the men on this floating shindig, indeed, for a certain strain of libertarian-shading-to-far-right thinker, freedom simply means freedom from consequences.

Being a woman in blockchain,” she says, “is like riding a bicycle. Except the bicycle is on fire. And everything is on fire. And you are going to hell.

The only downside of this treatment is all the bits an pieces involved, fiddling with this or that, I know there are more convenient ways but I feel connected to a line of sad middle aged men fiddling the same way night after night so that the next day they didn’t emote too much.

Michalina Olszanska

On June 19, 1865, known as Juneteenth—a melding of the day’s month and date—the last remaining slaves in America were declared free. Juneteenth, America’s “second Independence Day,” is now celebrated around the country. It is officially observed in 43 states and is a state holiday in Texas, home of the last to know.

James-K-Polk
Lee Swain
2/28/14 10:27am

You thought the Reagan years were about paranoia and fear?

I thought the Reagan years were about sloughing off the “malaise” of double-digit inflation and high unemployment and winning the Cold War. While there was uncertainty, there was certainly a sense of resurgence and optimism. I don’t know how we’re coming to the conclusion that the defining characteristic of the 1980s was fear.

And let’s not forget that they’re why Lois and Clark took three generations to get hitched, let alone have a bouncing baby Superboy. Hell, if it were up to Old Guard fanboys we’d never have seen a friendly Klingon on the Enterprise — much less a woman in command of a starship.

For the Skype call, he wears a sharp blazer and button-down, but he sits shoeless and cross-legged. He knows where the frame cuts off.